{"id":230,"date":"2010-09-22T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/09\/22\/truly-fall-is-for-planting\/"},"modified":"2010-10-06T13:45:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T17:45:34","slug":"truly-fall-is-for-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/09\/22\/truly-fall-is-for-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"Truly, Fall Is For Planting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The seasonal theme at garden centers is &#8220;Fall is for Planting&#8221;. Plant sales are everywhere. If you have recentlypurchased a home and your budget is tight, buy yourself an early, but practicable holiday gift- a deciduous shade tree planted on the southwest side of the home. In a few short years, this tree will reward you with lower summer cooling bills.<\/p>\n<p>Some good deciduous choices are red maple, green ash, tulip poplar, sawtooth oak, willow oak, and basswood. Garden centers push to reduce store inventories, saving usually 30%-40% off the listed price. I offer six basic landscape planting tips:<\/p>\n<p>1. Plant only deciduous trees in the front of the home, and evergreen trees on the other three sides (pines, hemlock, etc.)<br \/>\n2. Dig a hole three times the diameter of the root ball<br \/>\n3. Plant shallow, barely covering the root ball and put no soil amendments in the hole<br \/>\n4. Add three inches of an organic mulch (wood chips, pine straw or compost) over the widthof the planting hole and not piled up against the trunk<br \/>\n5. Slowly deliver 10 gallons of water to each tree after planting<br \/>\n6. Do not fertilize newly planted trees and shrubs until the first day of spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seasonal theme at garden centers is &#8220;Fall is for Planting&#8221;. Plant sales are everywhere. If you have recentlypurchased a home and your budget is tight, buy yourself an early, but practicable holiday gift- a deciduous shade tree planted on the southwest side of the home. In a few short years, this tree will reward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}